Ghosts of the past: how drought legacy effects shape forest functioning and carbon cycling

Anisohydric behavior linked to persistent hydraulic damage and delayed drought recovery across seven North American tree species

(2019) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Early-Warning Signals of Individual Tree Mortality Based on Annual Radial Growth

(2019) Maxime Cailleret et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Projected increases in intensity, frequency, and terrestrial carbon costs of compound drought and aridity events

(2019) Sha Zhou et al.   Science Advances

Strong and stable relationships between tree-ring parameters and forest-level carbon fluxes in a Siberian larch forest

(2019) Shunsuke Tei et al.   Polar Science

Implementing Plant Hydraulics in the Community Land Model, Version 5

(2019) Daniel Kennedy et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Land carbon models underestimate the severity and duration of drought’s impact on plant productivity

(2019) Hannah R. Kolus et al.   Scientific Reports

Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake

(2019) Julia K. Green et al.   NATURE

Linking drought legacy effects across scales: From leaves to tree rings to ecosystems

(2019) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The changing water cycle: The eco‐hydrologic impacts of forest density reduction in Mediterranean (seasonally dry) regions

(2019) Christina L. Tague et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Water

Legacies of more frequent drought in ponderosa pine across the western United States

(2019) Drew M. P. Peltier et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better

(2019) Ingrid J. Slette et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

California forest die-off linked to multi-year deep soil drying in 2012–2015 drought

(2019) M. L. Goulden et al.   Nature Geoscience

Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species

(2019) Yann Vitasse et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Summer drought and spring frost, but not their interaction, constrain European beech and Silver fir growth in their southern distribution limits

(2019) Antonio Gazol et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Recent increases in drought frequency cause observed multi-year drought legacies in the tree rings of semi-arid forests

(2019) Paul Szejner et al.   OECOLOGIA

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

(2019) William K. Smith et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Linking annual tree growth with eddy-flux measures of net ecosystem productivity across twenty years of observation in a mixed conifer forest

(2018) Aaron Teets et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Disentangling seasonal and interannual legacies from inferred patterns of forest water and carbon cycling using tree-ring stable isotopes

(2018) Paul Szejner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamic responses of tree-ring growth to multiple dimensions of drought

(2018) Shan Gao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Drought timing influences the legacy of tree growth recovery

(2018) Mengtian Huang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forest resilience to drought varies across biomes

(2018) Antonio Gazol et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality

(2018) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Wheat leaves embolised by water stress do not recover function upon rewatering

(2018) Kate M. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought

(2018) Daniel M. Johnson et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

(2018) Johannes Ingrisch et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Large-Scale Droughts Responsible for Dramatic Reductions of Terrestrial Net Carbon Uptake Over North America in 2011 and 2012

(2018) Wei He et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Tree carbon allocation explains forest drought-kill and recovery patterns

(2018) A. T. Trugman et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climatically controlled reproduction drives interannual growth variability in a temperate tree species

(2018) Andrew J. Hacket-Pain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Chronic historical drought legacy exacerbates tree mortality and crown dieback during acute heatwave-compounded drought

(2018) George Matusick et al.   Environmental Research Letters

When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

(2018) Flurin Babst et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink

(2018) Yan Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Drought legacies are dependent on water table depth, wood anatomy and drought timing across the eastern US

(2018) Steven A. Kannenberg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The climatic drivers of normalized difference vegetation index and tree-ring-based estimates of forest productivity are spatially coherent but temporally decoupled in Northern Hemispheric forests

(2018) Kristina Seftigen et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Boreal tree growth exhibits decadal-scale ecological memory to drought and insect defoliation, but no negative response to their interaction

(2018) Malcolm S. Itter et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Sampling bias overestimates climate change impacts on forest growth in the southwestern United States

(2018) Stefan Klesse et al.   Nature Communications

Global gross primary productivity and water use efficiency changes under drought stress

(2017) Zhen Yu et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

(2017) Xiuchen Wu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Density-dependent vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought

(2017) Alessandra Bottero et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Quantifying antecedent climatic drivers of tree growth in the Southwestern US

(2017) Drew M. P. Peltier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Global patterns of drought recovery

(2017) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   NATURE

Legacy effects of drought on plant-soil feedbacks and plant-plant interactions

(2017) Aurore Kaisermann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Hydrologic regulation of plant rooting depth

(2017) Ying Fan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relative influences of multiple sources of uncertainty on cumulative and incremental tree-ring-derived aboveground biomass estimates

(2017) M. Ross Alexander et al.   TREES-STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

Fusing tree-ring and forest inventory data to infer influences on tree growth

(2017) Margaret E. K. Evans et al.   Ecosphere

Divergence of species responses to climate change

(2017) Songlin Fei et al.   Science Advances

Ecosystem functioning is enveloped by hydrometeorological variability

(2017) Christoforos Pappas et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Tree-ring widths are good proxies of annual variation in forest productivity in temperate forests

(2017) Kai Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

On the declining relationship between tree growth and climate in the Midwest United States: the fading drought signal

(2016) Justin T. Maxwell et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Legacy effects of drought in the southwestern United States: A multi-species synthesis

(2016) Drew M. P. Peltier et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes

(2016) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of root water uptake formulation on simulated water and energy budgets at local and basin scales

(2016) Ian M. Ferguson et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Drought and frost contribute to abrupt growth decreases before tree mortality in nine temperate tree species

(2016) Marco Vanoni et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

A belowground perspective on the drought sensitivity of forests: Towards improved understanding and simulation

(2016) Richard P. Phillips et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Changing disturbance regimes, ecological memory, and forest resilience

(2016) Jill F Johnstone et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

High atmospheric demand for water can limit forest carbon uptake and transpiration as severely as dry soil

(2016) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States

(2016) James S. Clark et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A synthesis of radial growth patterns preceding tree mortality

(2016) Maxime Cailleret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

(2016) Alan K. Knapp et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of droughts on the growth resilience of Northern Hemisphere forests

(2016) A. Gazol et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Functional diversity enhances silver fir growth resilience to an extreme drought

(2016) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Diversity in plant hydraulic traits explains seasonal and inter-annual variations of vegetation dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forests

(2016) Xiangtao Xu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Compensatory mechanisms mitigate the effect of warming and drought on wood formation

(2016) Lorena Balducci et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating the convergence between eddy-covariance and biometric methods for assessing carbon budgets of forests

(2016) M. Campioli et al.   Nature Communications

The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes

(2016) Kimberly A. Novick et al.   Nature Climate Change

Comparing tree-ring and permanent plot estimates of aboveground net primary production in three eastern U.S. forests

(2016) Alex Dye et al.   Ecosphere

Short-term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes

(2016) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Paradigm shift in plant growth control

(2015) Christian Körner   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Effects of stand composition and tree size on resistance and resilience to drought in sessile oak and Scots pine

(2015) Morgane Merlin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

(2015) Dorothea Frank et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models

(2015) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   SCIENCE

Temperate forest health in an era of emerging megadisturbance

(2015) C. I. Millar et al.   SCIENCE

Unprecedented 21st century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains

(2015) B. I. Cook et al.   Science Advances

Allocation trade-offs dominate the response of tropical forest growth to seasonal and interannual drought

(2014) Christopher E. Doughty et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying ecological memory in plant and ecosystem processes

(2014) Kiona Ogle et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A few extreme events dominate global interannual variability in gross primary production

(2014) Jakob Zscheischler et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The influence of sampling design on tree-ring-based quantification of forest growth

(2014) Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effect of fungal pathogens on the water and carbon economy of trees: implications for drought-induced mortality

(2014) Jonàs Oliva et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree-ring structure

(2014) Henri E. Cuny et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Altered dynamics of forest recovery under a changing climate

(2013) Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

(2013) Markus Reichstein et al.   NATURE

Soil biotic legacy effects of extreme weather events influence plant invasiveness

(2013) A. Meisner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of throughfall exclusion on xylogenesis of balsam fir

(2013) L. D'Orangeville et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

Water controls on nitrogen transformations and stocks in an arid ecosystem

(2013) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   Ecosphere

How to study deep roots—and why it matters

(2013) Jean-Luc Maeght et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Precipitation legacies in desert grassland primary production occur through previous-year tiller density

(2012) Lara G. Reichmann et al.   ECOLOGY

Drought's legacy: multiyear hydraulic deterioration underlies widespread aspen forest die-off and portends increased future risk

(2012) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Reduction in carbon uptake during turn of the century drought in western North America

(2012) Christopher R. Schwalm et al.   Nature Geoscience

Legacy effects of drought on plant growth and the soil food web

(2012) Franciska Trijntje de Vries et al.   OECOLOGIA

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Resistance of European tree species to drought stress in mixedversuspure forests: evidence of stress release by inter-specific facilitation

(2012) H. Pretzsch et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Increasing drought under global warming in observations and models

(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

Drought and ecosystem carbon cycling

(2011) M.K. van der Molen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Extreme climatic events and vegetation: the role of stabilizing processes

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Higher Hydroclimatic Intensity with Global Warming

(2011) F. Giorgi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Stand- and tree-level determinants of the drought response of Scots pine radial growth

(2011) Jordi Martínez-Vilalta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Components of tree resilience: effects of successive low-growth episodes in old ponderosa pine forests

(2011) Francisco Lloret et al.   OIKOS

Mechanisms Linking Drought, Hydraulics, Carbon Metabolism, and Vegetation Mortality

(2011) N. G. McDowell   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

(2010) M. Zhao et al.   SCIENCE

Change in hydraulic traits of Mediterranean Quercus ilex subjected to long-term throughfall exclusion

(2010) J.-M. Limousin et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The influence of climate and fructification on the inter-annual variability of stem growth and net primary productivity in an old-growth, mixed beech forest

(2010) M. Mund et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Hydraulic Failure Defines the Recovery and Point of Death in Water-Stressed Conifers

(2008) T. J. Brodribb et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY